August 2017

Update: For the next two weeks, posts will be sporadic. Until September 15 work on our cottage is pretty much in limbo, therefore posts will be pretty much in limbo too. Yesterday Emmy needed to visit Glove Cities Veterinary Hospital because she had regurgitated bile several mornings in a row. We needed to know she was not…

We had our second adventure to our bank in Highland Falls yesterday. Scott is such an excellent seeing eye husband. He constantly relays what we are passing. I can see the”big” stuff, but not clear enough to know most of the details. He is like one of those recorded machines you can obtain in museums…

As this year moves toward the last third, we are still juggling the puzzle pieces of putting our cottage into a functional working organism that we can use. But, juggle we must.  Glenn, our fabulous plumber, needs Joe and Randy, our miracle working construction crew, to build the box behind the washer and dryer so he can…

At one of our estate sales we met another lovely lady… Shelly. While we were waiting for the sale to begin, her iPhone died. It was new. She thinks she hand not charged it fully. But, she was at the sale “on a mission” to secure a bedroom set for her daughter who had to…

We were thrown out of the house yesterday… well, not thrown out, but for the day we had no access to water or toilet facilities. Being prudent we decided we would take this opportunity to take care of a few out of the house tasks. So off we went. First, we needed to change Scott’s…

Oh how good it feels! All the shoddy workmanship that was done by Patrick St. Pierre of Efficient Heating and Cooling is being corrected. Patrick’s work that does not meet code standards is being corrected. We are moving several steps closer to having a livable home… Whoopee! Now we have a sink that actually works in our…

Yesterday, after I wrote about the holly accident , or as Scott calls it “I blogged him”, Suzanne, our lovely neighbor, offered wood chips waiting in her back yard for disposal. Immediately, I volunteered Scott and our wagon to be at least a partial removal source… only to be informed by Scott that we have enough wood…

Creeping along… that is best how to describe how progress is moving along. We KNOW it is all coming together, but at this stage “creeping along” is our best description. Yesterday Glenn Valachovic, our plumber, inventoried the plumbing supplies we have on hand so he can purchase what we still need. Joe Prue and Randy…

Our Mr. Lincoln and Pope John Paul roses have established themselves and are now producing beautiful flowers… Glenn, our wonderful plumber, started preparing the house for all our plumbing needs yesterday afternoon. And, he made sure to schedule Brandon Myers, Gloversville’s Building Inspector, was here to clarify and approve that everything we were planning on…